all my life ive been been living with this sadness/ conquering my fears over coming all the madness/ people tend to treat as if i was a savage/ tensing up as soon as i walk past them/ cause im like Bruce lee taking on karate masters/ like a Buddhist monk you’ll be set a flame by some matches/ i say hold up and wait for the applause/ as im a bring about the next holocaust/ destroying your identity you’ve become a lost cause/ you were tyrant you’ve been removed now your gone/ in the history books your name will not be written/ for i will be the victor only i will the people listen/ you could never fathom the world i in vision/ your mind is to small caged in like a prison/ a second chance you will most likely not be given/ a dead man walking soon to be gone from the living/ HOOK Were here now and were on the rise/ Gunnin for first place taking the prize/ There no more lies/ Cause its do or die/ Playin for keeps yes eye for an eye/ No were not sayin no names/ Just been counting the days/ trying to get ours/ Always been destined fame/ Only here for the riches and all of the glory/ Our biography damn right a true story/ VERSE Banging on these toombs trying to wake the dead/ You think im soft then you miss read/ Just like the undead we are on the rise/ Its unavoidable son its your demise/ So Know your place we are number one/ Words heavy with meaning net weight one ton/ I'm like babe Ruth always hit the home run/ I'm a spit something wise it aint over till its done/ Besides that I wear my face as a disguise/ To never let u know what I keep inside/ And the world recognize every time that we ride/ You wanna put me down better people have tried/ Solitary by nature there's secrets I confide/ I could look at you and tell if you lied/ But these are the results that I've come to expect/ This is curse and I'm here to infect/ HOOK (x2) Were here now and were on the rise/ Gunnin for first place yes taking the prize/ There no more lies/ Cause its do or die/ Playin for keeps yes eye for an eye/ No were not sayin no names/ Just been counting the days/ trying to get ours/ Always been destined fame/ Only here for the ritches and all of the glory/ Our biography damn right a true story/

Let me tell you about this girl that I know I love her cause she’s smart and intellectual Her beauty is natural and un comparable When Im with her life seems so peaceful Yea (pause cause she’s the only one for me I don’t see anyone else in this world for me She’s my destiny and I know I can fulfill it For her your blood i wouldn't hesitate it She makes me feel high off that ecstasy Just like the mic I gotta have her next to me My heart is for the taking cause she always keeps it real Understands what im saying and knows how I feel Im not playing I wont hesitate To let her know how much I appreciate All that she done and all she has given But for now what I say may just be fiction Chorus Im trying to be your number one im not the one You just cant please everyone Just trying to get a good job done When the day is gone You just cant please everyone Verse 2 Now im at home singing the blues Not sure about what im a do Or even what path I should choose Just stuck in rut always thinking of you Asking myself where did I go wrong And how did I not know all along That you weren’t happy and soon be gone Turning all of my words into a sad song Man I thought we would always be together Pushing threw the stormiest types of weather Working at making things get better Our love was like the symbol of an eagle feather Both powerful and strong Until the day we no longer got along You said it was best if we both move on But i guess you can please everyone Hook Verse Bodies stuck together u can call us yin yang We roll together 2 person gang She's my everything ill fight anyone And I can only do so much can't please everyone Last one standing when its all said and done Now I'm solo trying to kop some fun But it aint so easy living life on the run Not from the cops but my feelings inside Cause when she left my side something in me died While I look like a tough went home and cried Told her I didn't sweat her but I clearly lied And after every storm there's always better weather Not so easy to tear I'm tough as leather Pulling my strength from my eagle feather And since I let go man lifes been better Took everything we was and put it through the shredder

I Remember way back when I was just a kid full of so much potential couldn't hold it with a lid But to be a cool kid I had to dumb it down Should of seen my face when I heard that sound Hip hop blaring coming outta that box Bunch of dudes standing there wearing hoodies with Nike shox. One dude just starts bobbing his head Them words struck me so hard I thought I was dead At least that's what I was until heard that verse Now that was the moment the birthing of the curse Stuck in the drug game but my music was first If I've got so much talent but i feel so cursed Try to find my way but I seem to be blind Would things be different if I was signed I've made wrong choices this is how I'm defined Can't see past my choices can't see my frame of mind. Chorus: Can't stop me now I'm reaching for the stars. Coming back to earth with some heavenly bars. If dreams were locks my ambition is key. Leading me down the path to achieve victory. They call me projek toombz yea toombz for short They said no one would ever appreciate any of my art That I was doomed from start I could never fit the part People seem to think that I wasn’t very smart Cause I grew up ghetto with bad mentality Living it up in this world in a false reality Not concerned for the tragedies Consequences or casualties I look back now and I just laugh me Chilling on stoop with all them boys Hip hop blaring yea were getting destroyed All those wasted years with my peers Sitting around chugging beers Never taking the time to see things clear Putting in work so could get some air jordans Cause back then that’s what was important They told us chasing stars wouldn’t get us that far But I find myself in front you spitting these bars Can't stop me now I'm reaching for the stars. Coming back to earth with some heavenly bars. If dreams were locks my ambition is key. Leading me down the path to achieve victory. Tell me to quit my dreams might as well be chasing stars Ill get there soon enough getting closer with every bar Gotta work to pay my rent gotta work to pay them bills No time for music this working life fucking kills I'm physically ok my dream has suffered Putting life on pause until it loads and buffers Now I'm back at it a dream you'll never kill My glass is half full and it will never spill Got words spewing out like I'm mentally ill Getting as epic as I can leaving shoes to fill I leave my path wide open so anyone can follow First I got some truth for all of u to swallow To walk in my shoes you gotta give it your all Half assed efforts will leave you tripping as u fall I pour my heart my soul my blood my tears Walking with a head held high as the last of my peers. Chorus: Can't stop me now I'm reaching for the stars. Coming back to earth with some heavenly bars. If dreams were locks my ambition is key. Leading me down the path to achieve victory

I remember way back then when music was my friend Always helping me sticking by to the end Whenever life got hard thats when the music would start Oh I knew from then that it was stuck on my heart Verse Naw man you ain't never knowing How this music gets me started then i get going Next thing you know my rhymes they start flowing Then it's about time that i start showin What all this music it means to me Music is my friend that's what it used to be It used to get me threw all my troubles Then it flipped on turning on the double Now i found myself sitting around confused Trying to figure out what there is i can do Cause the fans loved us now they don't care for are crew Tellin us were all gonna have to choose I say fuck that Cause I want to explore Always learning new styles never being a bore Like Tupac and Biggie I`ll leave you wanting more Rip apart the competition no need for a score Hook I remember way back then when music was my friend Always helping me sticking by to the end Whenever life got hard thats when the music would start Oh I knew from then that it was stuck on my heart Verse When I was a little kid used to wake up to the tupac Wearing headphones to class until I was caught Music was life and my life was music Now I got a mic in my hands and I will not abuse it So ill take initiative and only spit some true shit Music was my friend helping me to grow up lost in my tunes don't be surprised I didn't show up Cause Music was there when I had no friends I don't need those fakes ill just jam to this then And in my mind I'm jamming with the greatest Tupac eazy -e even got biggie on the playlist turned to music when there's problems couldn't face it Wishing I was big time like shit I can taste it Music consoles the souls of those with flow Music taught me everything that I know I want my words heard that's why I flow slow Music helps me rest it gives me piece of mind So I'm always pushing my flow till my rhymes refined That's how I respect this music its how I'm defined I'm addicted to this music always hitting rewind Then I press play to hear it again Listenin to these yes thats where Ive been Cause music`s always been so close to my heart Finding all of this music to be a work of art

They say that im bad they tell me im up to no good I guess this is what happens when you grow up in the hood People treat you like nothing walk on you like dirt Not even thinking for a second that it may hurt Not even recognizing any of your work Thinking you have no potential Don’t care about the textbook papers or pencils But your really just book that’s been half written Could use a little help filling the rest of these pages in But they all steer away think you don’t want a proper education they don’t take the time or any consideration of all these terrible situations kids like us were forced to be facin like everyone else we just want to go to university not selling dope or coming grand larceny Seems were all invisible to this ignorant society Another reason these kids don’t choose sobriety This is just a little bit of the truth From a ghetto trapped youth See we just want to escape this place simply try changing our own fates Doesn’t matter the colour of your skin or your damn race We just want to be treated as equals Live a good life like the rest of these people Just give us chance we can think outside of the box Youll see it when you release from these chains undoing all those locks Ending another vicious cycle So these kids don’t end up being suicidal Or even worse becoming homicidal Go to school stay away from the marines Pick up the pens instead of speaking with bullets and rifles HOOK Its just what you gotta do what you gotta do Its just what you gotta do what you gotta do Do what you gotta do what you gotta do If you don’t want to be a ghetto trapped youth Listen to boys listen to me girls I will teach the ways this vicious world Listen to boys listen to me girls No need to be scared of this evil world VERSE 2 This what u think of me I can't succeed Little do u know i write till my fingers tips bleed. This education System wasn't built for everyone. Even though we all live underneath the same sun. If we were all in school there's no street to run. To keep the rich rich gotta keep the poor dumb. And we all okay with this we live it every day. This is our existence living pay to pay. Society sets standards for u to live up to. Freedom of speech but speaking my mind is taboo. And u wonder why them kids huffing up the glue. You wonder why they sucking crack through that tube. its mental abuse what they teach in these schools. Its a system where your destined only to fail. Executive positions only if your male. Youths trying to revolt situations gone stale HOOK Its just what you gotta do what you gotta do Its just what you gotta do what you gotta do Do what you gotta do what you gotta do If you don’t want to be a ghetto trapped youth Listen to boys listen to me girls I will teach the ways this vicious world Listen to boys listen to me girls No need to be scared of this evil world VERSE 3 He screams I try and I try to escape I don’t want be here I don’t like this place Hoping when I leave I will become inspired No longer caring for materials society says I desire Pour gasoline all over it set those things fire I will no longer consume I will not be your buyer they don’t care for me just want money not my vision In return a fake dream is all that had been given I say fuck em I don’t need what they got I can see right threw them an their sinister plot Trying to keep us down with the power they bought Not knowing they already have been caught I know its hard to speak you mind on the spot Like John Lennon Martin Luther King or JFK Cause they’ve all been put down Their new home was called the grave I say speak your mind if you dont want to be Government slaves HOOK Its just what you gotta do what you gotta do Its just what you gotta do what you gotta do Do what you gotta do what you gotta do If you don’t want to be a ghetto trapped youth Listen to boys listen to me girls I will teach the ways this vicious world Listen to boys listen to me girls No need to be scared of this evil world

writing is the name of the game/ become a great poet and never be ashamed/ of lyrics you have written/ or the verses you've been spitten/ look at our leaders tell'em to take a listen/ cause the creator has given each of us a voice/ and with that always comes choice/ idle no more were gonna make some noise/ from the biggest cities to smallest reserves/ letting harper know what the people deserve/ this country is not company he can control/ nor are we employees he’s not a ceo/ so don’t do as you told/ its time for the people to take back control/ cause this is democracy and not a dictatorship/ when I see what your doing it makes me sick I look at you and all I see is grey/ your like an ominous haze/ no one believes anything that you say/ Hook This is for my people yes my people my pride We praise the Creator Mother Earth and the sky A warriors nation always down for the ride A day will soon come for all nations to rise Verse all through out history there aint no native presidents so im a run for election im a set precedence first order of business paint the white house red maybe then theyll see how much the red man bled im like geronimo imperviouse to led cross bred with jesus turning mud to bread as we march through the streets no room for elbows standing up to harper as he swings with low blows we all gotta take part join this idle no more my head held high eyes dont see the floor do it cuz u wanna this aint no household chore cant sit by idle as this affects my core so i use my voice to tell em all how it is they f-ing us over as they add to their sins so im a step up and swing with all i got Ill either rise as a hero or martyred as im shot Hook Verse So its do or die but im here to live lets start sharing and learn how to give without expecting anything in return cause the creator is always watching waiting for lessons to be learned only then can true blessings be earned maybe that'll be the day that i'll be concerned im always down for the just fight yea a righteous cause when we've all finished the world will stand and applaud cause they seen all the battles leaving our nations in scars life is one difficult path and no one said it would be fair only thing we can do is try to be prepaired for the worst situation that could suddenly arise then conquer it and claim victory as your prize no one could strip you of your dignity or pride cause this is for my people my people my pride said this is for my people my people my pride